Copies picasa meta data (region names) to OpenMeta and Windows tags so they are searchable via Spotlight and windows search

picasa2tags.sh

#!/bin/bash

usage="
NAME
    picasa2tags -- copies Picasa Region Names to OpenMeta and Windows tags

SYNOPSIS
    picasa2tags [OPTION] [DIR/FILE]

OPTIONS 
    -r   recursively copy tags for files in directory
    -n   non recursively copy tags in direcory
    -p   path to single file to copy tags
	 
	 "

if [ x$2 = "x" ]; then
    echo "$usage"
    exit
fi

if [ $1 = "-r" ] ; then 
    fileList="$(find $2 -name *.[jJ][pP][gG])"
elif [ $1 = "-n" ]; then
    fileList="$2/*.[jJ][pP][gG]"
elif [ $1 = "-p" ]; then
    fileList=$2  
else
    echo "$usage"
    exit
fi


for file in $fileList; do
    regionname=$(exiftool -regionname $file | cut -d : -f2 | sed 's/, / /g') # get names
    #regionname=$(exiftool -regionname $file | cut -d : -f2 | sed 's/, /,/g') # handle spaces
    read -rd '' regionname <<< "$regionname" # cut preceding space
	 
    if [ x$regionname = "x" ]; then # only change photos that have a regionname
        echo "unchanged:$file"
    else
        openmeta -a $regionname -p $file # save to openmeta tags
        #openmeta -a "$regionname" -p $file  # handle spaces
        om2exif.sh -p $file	 # updates EXIF data using other script
    fi
done